venom
ve nuhm
- n toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
- n feeling a need to see others suffer
- The venom, he says, is almost odorless.
- The easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung.
- The venom contains a protein, contortrostatin, that retards the growth and metastasis of tumors.